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This household appliance keeps food cold by moving heat from inside the cabinet to the outside.
What is a refrigerator?
English borrowed the word “piano” from this language.
What is Italian?
Edward Jenner pioneered vaccination against this disease.
What is smallpox?
This city became Canada's capital in 1857 after being selected by Queen Victoria.
What is Ottawa?
This famous 1969 photograph shows an astronaut standing on the Moon.
What is a moon landing photograph?
This device uses a lens to enlarge tiny objects that are difficult to see with the naked eye.
What is a microscope?
The word “kindergarten” comes from this language.
What is German?
This discovery by Louis Pasteur and others helped establish that microorganisms can cause disease.
What is germ theory?
This railway helped connect Canada from east to west in the 19th century.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Dorothea Lange's famous photograph Migrant Mother became associated with this economic crisis.
What is the Great Depression?
This part of a camera controls how much light enters through the lens.
What is the aperture?
The word “tsunami” comes from this language.
What is Japanese?
This antiseptic pioneer promoted sterile surgery using carbolic acid.
Who is Joseph Lister?
This province entered Confederation in 1871.
What is British Columbia?
The photograph known as V-J Day in Times Square shows a sailor kissing this professional.
What is a nurse?
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure and is often used in weather forecasting.
What is a barometer?
The word “algebra” came into English through this language.
What is Arabic?
The first successful long-term organ transplant in 1954 involved this organ.
What is a kidney?
This Canadian territory was officially created in 1999.
What is Nunavut?
Earthrise, photographed during Apollo 8, shows Earth rising above the horizon of this celestial body.
What is the Moon?
This device changes alternating current to direct current in many electronic power supplies.
What is a rectifier?
The word “bungalow” entered English from a word meaning “of Bengal” in this South Asian language.
What is Hindi?
This imaging technology uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves rather than X-rays.
What is MRI?
The Charlottetown Conference of 1864 helped set the stage for this national event.
What is Canadian Confederation?
Joe Rosenthal's famous 1945 image captured U.S. Marines raising a flag on this Pacific island.
What is Iwo Jima?